One more thing. This theater is very structurally sound. The side on the left is freshly painted a stunning lavendar/violet all the way to the back of the former auditorium. The windows look new. It’s pretty long, maybe 100 feet or more. And it’s very near the continuance of Route 1 into Stratford where the neighborhood/light industry end.

An MGM film called “The Unfinished Dance” with Danny Thomas and Margaret O'Brien was playing at the Barnum on 11/16/47. Other theaters advertised that day were the Colonial, Rivoli, Black Rock, West End, Brooklawn, Stratford, Bostwick, Community, Lyric and E.M. Loew’s Milford Open-Air Drive In.